Simon Armitage

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Macavity
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Tue May 03, 2016 5:41 pm

http://www.theguardian.com/books/live/2 ... chat-pearl
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Charles
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Wed May 04, 2016 1:33 am

I didn't know he'd translated Pearl - one of my favourites, will have to check that out.
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Thu May 05, 2016 6:17 pm

I think there was somebody called Armitage in my class at school
We fray into the future, rarely wrought
Save in the tapestries of afterthought.
Richard Wilbur
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